Effects of a Gaze-Based 2D Platform Game on User Enjoyment, Perceived Competence, and Digital Eye Strain

Mark Colley; Beate Wanner; Max Rädler; Marcel Rötzer; Julian Frommel; Teresa Hirzle; Pascal Jansen; Enrico Rukzio

doi:10.1145/3613904.3641909

Effects of a Gaze-Based 2D Platform Game on User Enjoyment, Perceived Competence, and Digital Eye Strain

Mark Colley, Beate Wanner, Max Rädler, Marcel Rötzer, Julian Frommel, Teresa Hirzle, Pascal Jansen, Enrico Rukzio

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Abstract

Gaze interaction is a promising interaction method to increase variety, challenge, and fun in games.We present “Shed Some Fear”, a 2D platform game including numerous eye-gaze-based interactions. “Shed Some Fear” includes control with eye-gaze and traditional keyboard input. The eye-gaze interactions are partially based on eye exercises reducing digital eye strain but also on employing peripheral vision. By employing eye-gaze as a necessary input mechanism, we explore the effects on and tradeoffs between user enjoyment and digital eye strain in a five-day longitudinal between-subject study (N=17) compared to interaction with a traditional mouse. We found that perceived competence was significantly higher with eye gaze interaction and significantly higher internal eye strain. With this work, we contribute to the not straightforward inclusion of eye tracking as a useful and fun input method for games.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Sytems
Place of Publication	New York, NY, USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Electronic)	9798400703300
ISBN (Print)	9798400703300
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3641909
Publication status	Published - May 2024

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We thank all study participants. This research was partially funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) through the project \u201CGaze-Assisted Scalable Interaction in Pervasive Classrooms\u201D (Project number: 425867974). This work was supported by a fellowship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and by the Pioneer Centre for AI, DNRF grant number P1.

Funders	Funder number
Danmarks Grundforskningsfond
German Academic Exchange Service
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft	425867974
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Keywords

2D platform
digital eye strain
eye-gaze
gamification

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Colley, M., Wanner, B., Rädler, M., Rötzer, M., Frommel, J., Hirzle, T., Jansen, P., & Rukzio, E. (2024). Effects of a Gaze-Based 2D Platform Game on User Enjoyment, Perceived Competence, and Digital Eye Strain. In CHI 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Sytems Article 369 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3641909

Colley, Mark ; Wanner, Beate ; Rädler, Max et al. / Effects of a Gaze-Based 2D Platform Game on User Enjoyment, Perceived Competence, and Digital Eye Strain. CHI 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Sytems. New York, NY, USA : Association for Computing Machinery, 2024. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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